Nightingale woke up in the night of the next day. The moon is shining brightly and beautifully in the sky but nothing is more beautiful in her eyes than those stars that seemed to have multiplied over the years. Everyone has fully recovered from the damages they had acquired from those two days of battle and are now ready for the ritual. They all wore the formal clothes for the ritual that the head soldier from every House brought with them. All the designs are representing their Houses and elements.
The fire elements have their robe of fiery red colour where their symbol stitched on with silver spun thread. The earth elements wore their light brown coloured robes where their symbol is stitched with metallic blue thread. The air elements has silver robes with their symbols were made of metallic red thread. And the water elements have their blue robes combined with metallic brown thread for their symbol. Each of their robes was matched with wood carved sandals. Grale and Jester are both amused with their simple but formal clothes and kept tracing the details of one another's robes.
All the eldest of the different houses drew a seal on the bare earth, where the Ethereal once stood their camp, with the light from their rings that radiate with the moon and the stars above. Robin placed the Elysian King properties at the centre of the seal. But before the sealing ritual would be initiated, those young'uns that call themselves the Paladins must first receive the title from their predecessor. It went without pause and each received the properties of a Paladin. Now, they have to dance with those heavy skull headdresses, fur capes, and the rings, that can only be worn by the Paladins, with the rings they already have.
After all the captured Supreme Elysian, who were all wrapped with white cloth and sealed with the Paladin's mark they're entrusted to, was laid down in each of the twelve columns and Paladins before them, the predecessors started to sing the Song of the Stars. The other Ethereal joined in on the second line of the song then each Paladin danced their own dances respective of the House they came from and represents. Each has their own moves and steps but all goes accordingly to the Song. Before the first line of the peak of the Song, the other Ethereal joined with the dance.
Each column represents a gate to another realm where each of the Supreme Elysian will be sealed in accordance to their element too. The gates started to open producing bright yellowish light as the Paladins dance around the seal. The gates slowly swallowed the Supremes in another realm along with the King's properties at the centre of the seal. The new Paladins danced gracefully and sang with their heart along with their fellow Ethereal. They're no longer being consumed with negative emotions as every amount of it is being sucked out of them by their own effort in singing and dancing. Right after the Song and Dance ended, the Supremes and the King's properties are now locked in another realm and the light coming from the lines of the seal has ceased to shine too.
The rings of the Paladins shined like the stars on the sky and together are like the moon tonight. But then at the centre where the King's properties once laid came a blinding light and was seconded by warm fire that rose high past a man's height. Curious and wary, they were all quiet as they wait for what's to happen next. The mark on Nightingale's chest started to shine like the warm fire before them and pulled her towards the fire. But what happened next stunned her and held her breath with her eyes wide open. Ardent's face showed up first, smiling at her, then his long legs stepped out and pulled his body out of the flame. He's wearing a white robe that has all the elements embroidered on it. The fire, wind, water, and earth came together equally and beautifully on the plain silk cloth.
"But you—I..." she trailed off as her mouth won't let her speak those words. She stared at him like she doesn't know what's happening anymore. Ardent shook his head still smiling at her.
"Yes, I died... by yours and Sophie's hands but it was the oath I have to the Elysian god that you have severed. You have set me free from the Elysian god, formerly your father. The Bind won't let me die without serving its purpose" Ardent explained.
